PhD in Economics
2023
Industrial Organization Perspectives on Capital Depreciation, Two-Sided Sorting, and Platform Design
Advisors: Susanna Esteban and Gerard Llobet
Placement: Paris School of Economics
Essays on the Digital Economy
Advisor: Gerard Llobet
Placement: Universitat de les Illes Balears
Income Dynamics and the Role of Firms in Labor Markets
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: UCL (postdoc), Banco de España
Understanding Heterogeneous Choices and Informing Public Policy Regarding Tolerance, Tobacco, and Trade
Advisors: Susanna Esteban and Diego Puga
Placement: OECD
Essays on Macroeconomic Policy
Advisor: Dante Amengual
Placement: Banco de España
Reshaping Destiny: The Role of History, Geography and Proximity in Urban Dynamics
Advisor: Diego Puga
Placement: CEMFI (postdoc)
Essays on Cross-Borders and Sectoral Dimensions of Macroprudential Policy
Advisor: Javier Suarez
Placement: Banco Central de Chile
Essays on Applied Economics
Advisor: Monica Martinez-Bravo
Placement: Shangdong University
Essays on Polictical Economy and Development
Advisors: Paula Bustos and Monica Martinez-Bravo
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Demand for Children in Developing Countries
Advisor: Nezih Guner
Placement: Shangdong University
2022
Three Essays on Inequality
Advisors: Samuel Bentolila and Caterina Calsamiglia
Placement: LEAP, Bocconi University (1-year postdoc), University of Exeter
Credit Lines: Contracts, Runs, and Regulation
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: Banco de España
Macroeconomic Perspectives on Taxes and Transfers
Advisor: Nezih Guner
Placement: The University of Bonn
Income, Employment, and Health Risks: Methods and Applications
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: IE University
2021
Persistence and Change in Culture and Trade
Advisor: Diego Puga
Placement: The University of Hong Kong
2020
Essays on Macroeconomics and Banking Regulation
Advisor: Javier Suárez
Placement: Banco de España
Essays on Latent Variables in Time Series and Panel Data
Advisors: Manuel Arellano and Enrique Sentana
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Essays on Financial Economics
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: Central Bank of Denmark
Essays on strategic games applied to technology development and retirement
Advisor: Gerard Llobet
Placement: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Essays on Productivity and Firm Dynamics
Advisor: Nezih Guner
Placement: University of Cambridge (1-year postdoc), Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)
Essays on Firms and Finance
Advisor: Samuel Bentolila
Placement: Compass Lexecon (Madrid)
Essays on War, Forced Displacement, HIV, and Education
Advisors: Manuel Arellano and Diego Puga
Placement: University of Melbourne
2019
Identity and Infrastructure as causes of Productivity
Advisor: Paula Bustos
Placement: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Three Essays on Idiosyncratic Preferences
Advisor: Guillermo Caruana
Placement: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Essays on Macroeconomic Policy
Advisors: Nezih Guner and Josep Pijoan-Mas
Placement: AIReF (Spanish Independent Authority of Fiscal Responsibility)
Essays on the Political Economy of Development
Advisor: Monica Martinez-Bravo
Placement: Briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality (1-year postdoc), University of Warwick (starting in 2020)
2018
Three essays on economics of aging
Advisor: Josep Pijoan-Mas
Placement: European University Institute
Essays on individual and institutional investors
Advisors: Francisco Javier Mencía and Enrique Sentana
Placement: Banco de España
Essays on executive compensation and corporate governance
Advisor: Javier Suárez
Placement: CUNEF
Essays on labor supply and health
Advisor: Pedro Mira
Placement: Xiamen University
2017
Three essays on financial markets
Advisor: Dante Amengual
Placement: Tilburg University
Essays on the economics of the media: Media bias, competition and tax anticipations
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Banco de España
Essays on information acquisition
Advisors: Guillermo Caruana and Gerard Llobet
Placement: NYU Shanghai
2016
Essays on political economy and migration
Advisor: Monica Martinez-Bravo
Placement: CAF, Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina
2015
Essays on applied economics: On the use of time and money
Advisors: Manuel Bagües and Monica Martinez-Bravo
Placement: European University Institute (postdoc)
Three essays on school organization, student performance, and long-term outcomes
Advisor: David Dorn
Placement: Lund University
Applied urban and regional economics: Housing markets and political economics
Advisor: Diego Puga
Placement: London School of Economics
Essays on housing and macroeconomic dynamics
Advisors: Enrique Sentana and Claudio Michelacci
Placement: Banco de España
Studies in the econometrics of panel data with applications to growth, social interactions and asset pricing
Advisors: Enrique Sentana and Stéphane Bonhomme
Placement: MIT Sloan School of Management
Essays on panel data econometrics: local goverments, politicians' incentives and inflation
Advisor: Dante Amengual
Placement: Uppsala University
Unobserved heterogeneity and dependence in aggregate panel data models: Methods and applications
Advisors: Manuel Arellano and Stéphane Bonhomme
Placement: Banco de Chile
2014
Essays on international economics: Size distribution of plants and international firms
Advisor: Claudio Michelacci
Placement: Banco de España
Essays on financial regulation
Advisor: Javier Suarez
Placement: Banca d'Italia
2012
An investigation of consumption insurance over the life cycle
Advisor: Josep Pijoan-Mas
Placement: Goethe University Frankfurt
Migration, self-selection and learning in cities
Advisor: Diego Puga
Placement: New York University Furman Center (postdoc); University of Southern California
The allocation of resources across firms and aggregate productivity
Advisor: Josep Pijoan-Mas
Placement: ECARES, Brussels (postdoc); Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Essays on household decision making and labour market
Advisor: Pedro Mira
Placement: Universidad del Pacífico, Lima
2011
International migration flows and labor market outcomes: Micro and macro evidence
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Essays on unemployment risk and inequality
Advisor: Claudio Michelacci
Placement: Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires
2010
Essays on credit risk and corporate finance
Advisor: Enrique Sentana
Placement: Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, Madrid
Essays in applied microeconometrics: Education decisions and utility demand
Advisors: Manuel Arellano and Samuel Bentolila
Placement: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Essays on growth econometrics
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Banco de España
2009
Advertising and demand for differentiated-products; Evidence from the Spanish automobile market
Advisor: Gerard Llobet
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Wage differentials and wage rigidity: micro evidence from labor market models with frictions
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Collegio Carlo Alberto
Three essays in banking and microfinance
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: Universidad Carlos III
2008
Essays in labor economics and individual decisions
Advisor: Samuel Bentolila
Placement: Universidad de Murcia
Household shares of risky assets: A microeconometric analysis
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Universidad de la República, Montevideo
2007
Heterogeneity and dynamics in individual wages and labour market histories
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Banco de España
2006
Riesgo de crédito y regulación bancaria
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: Merrill Lynch, London
An evaluation of the use of non-Gaussian distributions in risk management
Advisor: Enrique Sentana
Placement: Banco de España
Heterogeneidad del rendimiento de la educación, salarios y decisión secuencial de niveles educativos
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Tilburg University
2004
Risk and return in international financial markets: An empirical investigations
Advisor: Enrique Sentana
Placement: CIREQ (postdoc); Bank of Canada
Inflation persistence, inflation objectives and monetary policy rules
Advisor: Samuel Bentolila
Placement: European Central Bank
2003
Housing tenure and labour mobility: A comparison across European countries
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Banco de España
Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models and applications to labor force participation and fertility decisions
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: University of Copenhagen (postdoc); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Econometric testing in finance: Mean-variance spanning, return predictability and derivative pricing
Advisor: Enrique Sentana
Placement: London School of Economics, (postdoc); Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2002
The econometrics of income dynamics and rotating panels, with an application to precautionary saving
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2001
Stranded-cost recovery payments in competitive markets
Advisor: A. Jorge Padilla
Placement: Lexecon, London
2000
Un análisis económico de los consejos de administración
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
1999
Dynamics and seasonality in panel data: Econometric methods and analysis of earnings mobility
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: University of Copenhagen (postdoc); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
A job search approach to Spanish unemployment: Theory and structural estimation
Advisor: Samuel Bentolila
Placement: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Fiscalidad óptima en modelos de ciclos reales con rigideces en el mercado de trabajo
Advisor: Albert Marcet
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
1998
Strategic interaction between public institutions and private agents: A political economy approach
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: AB Asesores
Estimating dynamic discrete choice models from panel data with applications to labour force participation and employment decisions
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Procesos estocásticos en tiempo continuo y sus aplicaciones a la valoración de activos financieros derivados
Advisor: Enrique Sentana
Placement: Universidad de Alicante
1997
Estructura financiera y decisiones reales en la empresa. El efecto de la responsabilidad limitada
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: Universidad de Las Palmas
Reestructuración financiera y reorganización empresarial: Un análisis teórico y empírico
Advisor: A. Jorge Padilla
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
1996
El mercado de depósitos español (1985-1994): Bancos versus cajas de ahorro
Advisors: A. Jorge Padilla and Carmen Matutes
Placement: FEDEA, Madrid
1995
Dynamic models of price and inventory decisions with fixed adjustment costs
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: University of Western Ontario
A theoretical and empirical investigation on consumption decisions with applications to Spanish household data
Advisor: Samuel Bentolila
Placement: Banco de España
1994
Econometric analysis of investment and employment decisions using firm panel data
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Dynamic econometric models for cohort and panel data: Methods and applications to life-cycle consumption
Advisor: Manuel Arellano
Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
An economic analysis of banking regulation
Advisor: Rafael Repullo
Placement: London School of Economics